Dogs and children

If you have a dog, you always get the best part of the avocado. If you have a child – you spend your life eating the bruised sections. I used to feel bad for giving my dog the bruised part, thinking I was a bad “mother” but then I reminded myself that she eats horse poo from the trails, cat poo from the box, and who-knows-what-else when I’m not looking. I think about it every time I give her a bruised section. But I also have to admit that if she didn’t like it and wouldn’t eat it, I’d give her a non-bruised section. Kind of like how I barely have a corner of the bed now that she has taken to snuggling at night instead of staking out her own side or lying across my legs like she did when she was younger … (I am glad she doesn’t complain about the avocado, though …)